RE: Obamacare written to deceive the public.
November 18, 2014 at 10:44 am
(This post was last modified: November 18, 2014 at 10:45 am by Heywood.)
(November 17, 2014 at 11:49 pm)Rhythm Wrote: Money to pay for healthcare is scarce. I can find a doctor at any time of the day or night with no notice.
Your positions assumes that right now in America, enough health care is being produced to meet everyone needs. If this is true then why did we need Obamacare? I don't think it is true. I don't see vast quantities of health care sitting idle. Doctors, clinics, and emergency rooms all seem busy.
If before Obamacare there were lots and lots of people not getting care because they couldn't afford it, then what do you think is going to happen when they get insurance? They're going to try to get care. Providing insurance doesn't magically make more health care to meet the demands of these new customers. All it does is redistributes the existing quantity of care.
Imagine a country with population of 10 people and 8 hamburgers. Every person needs a hamburger. The system is set up so the hamburgers go to the highest bidder. The leftist in charge doesn't like it. He feels the poor are being treated unfairly cause they can't afford to buy a hamburger. So what does he do? He issues vouchers to all ten citizens good for one hamburger and thinks the problem is solved. The problem isn't solved. All he did is redistribute the hamburgers....now the highest bidders don't get the hamburgers and instead the first people in line do. Two people are still going to go hungry despite having a voucher for a hamburger . If he wanted all his citizens to have a hamburgers....the solution involved grilling up some more hamburgers.